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Both are not made by the same company in a way. The GeForce cards use NVidia's chipset. Which is what makes a card, really. If you bought a Creative GeForce, it would be the same 'cause of the NVidia chipset. There would be some minor differences, but never the less, the same.
To answer djwells' question: Not all hardware is compatible with each other.